A recent article in Developmental Neurorehabilitation, by HS Park et al, 2024 talks about the relationship between torticollis and the early motor milestones of lying and rolling. Torticollis is defined as a persistent tilt of the head to one side and a turning of the head to the other side. The head tilt to one side, significantly impacts the infants ability to lift their head sideways to the other side. This is exactly what your infant needs to do when rolling over their arm, lift their...

I have just read an article by Deng et al., 2025 (Pediatric Physical Therapy) which discusses the key elements involved in helping infants to learn. The authors mention that enriched play at home involves stimulating numerous systems during playtime, such as vision, hearing, touch, pressure, movement, as well as social and cognitive skills. Enriched play at home should be new to the infant, stimulating and motivating, so that the infant is engaged and active in the activity to help infants...

Hi everyone; I was just at an infant movements course this weekend, focusing on early infant movements from preterm and up to 4 months of age. As this time period is before the infants develop voluntary movements, it is seen as a window into the central nervous system and how it functions. When we were watching typical preterm and post term infants, I was surprised at how elegant and fluid their early infant movements were, using variety and rotations, just like a dancer. Even though they...